A person is a great master at creating problems for themselves. And to live happily, it’s enough to understand this: all your difficulties you organized yourself. That’s exactly what happened to Taisiya Zhukova. She contacted Max Wolf’s agency asking to find her mother.
Her mother apparently flew abroad, where she was offered work in a theater and film when Taisiya was fourteen. The girl still had a nanny, a personal pediatrician, an apartment in the city center, and a luxurious country house. For years, her mother sent postcards for holidays and expensive gifts. Recently, the nanny died. Growing up, Taisiya is now alone and wants to understand where her mother is and why she still hasn’t returned.
Lamp and Wolf agree to help Zhukova— and what do they find out? That Taisiya Mikhailovna Zhukova died many years ago of diphtheria when she was barely twelve months old!
Evlampiya and Max are drawn into someone else’s bad game. The investigation nearly hits a dead end, but in the end the knot is untangled…
Dar’ya Dontsova tried to forget this experience like a nightmare. After all, if you don’t want your life to go off the rails, never communicate with people who have already sent their own life off the rails.
Dar’ya Dontsova is the most popular and in-demand author in our country, loved by millions of readers. In Russia, more than 200 million copies of her books have been sold. Her work fills hearts and souls with light, optimism, joy, and confidence in the day to come!
“Don’t ask me—Dontsova is an incredible hard worker! I don’t know another writer who works so much. I treat her with respect, like an example of writers’ diligence. Women need psychological support and receive it from Dontsova. I myself once read several of Dontsova’s novels. Very different people read her. And very busy business ladies, to turn their minds off for a while, and housewives who have a break—15–20 minutes between drop-off and pick-up of the children.” — Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic.